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    <title>topic Re: Issues with FormattedText in Inventor Programming - iLogic, Macros, AddIns &amp; Apprentice</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5691985#M56920</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi Erik,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had the same problem some time ago, I tried to change the formatted text with the "Replace" function and something went wrong.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Then I've tried the following solution and it started working properly&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/changing-text-in-description-column-of-a-holetable/m-p/4600145#M47066"&gt;http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/changing-text-in-description-column-of-a-holetable/m-p/4600145#M47066&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bregs&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Rossano Praderi&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:32:49 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>rossano_praderi</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-06-24T18:32:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Issues with FormattedText</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5687684#M56866</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello all,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I wanted to remove style overrides from our titleblock. As there are many, many textboxes, I wanted to do this in an automated way.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;There seems to be an issue with writing to FormattedText property.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The code is like&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt; Inventor.Application invApp;
            invApp = (Inventor.Application)System.Activator.CreateInstance(System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Inventor.Application"));
            
            DrawingDocument drawDoc = (DrawingDocument)invApp.Documents.Open(@"Z:\_pdm\flg\Administration\Inventor\2014\Templates\Drawing_DE_EN.dwg");

            TitleBlock tBlock = drawDoc.ActiveSheet.TitleBlock;

            DrawingSketch sketch = tBlock.Definition.Sketch;

            TextBoxes tboxes = sketch.TextBoxes;

            foreach(TextBox tbox in tboxes)
            {
                
                tbox.Style = drawDoc.StylesManager.TextStyles["Iso"];

                String text = tbox.FormattedText;
                tbox.FormattedText=tbox.FormattedText.Replace("ISOCPEUR", "ISOCP");
                

            }

            drawDoc.SaveAsInventorDWG(@"c:\temp\test.dwg",true);&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;even if I say&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;tbox.FormattedText = tbox.FormattedText &lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;without changing anything, this still causes an exception.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Best regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Erik&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:25:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5687684#M56866</guid>
      <dc:creator>gilsdorf_e</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-22T14:25:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issues with FormattedText</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5688665#M56877</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Try&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;String text = tbox.FormattedText;
tbox.FormattedText=&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;text&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;.Replace("ISOCPEUR", "ISOCP");&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or even:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;String text = tbox.&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;Text&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;;
tbox.&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;Text&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;=&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;text&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;.Replace("ISOCPEUR", "ISOCP");&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;That's what I would try...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 04:36:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5688665#M56877</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-23T04:36:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issues with FormattedText</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5688746#M56883</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;that has been my first try. Somewhere on the internet it says there might be problems with custom iProperties.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tbox.Text cannot be used in my opinion, as I do not want to change the text but the formatting.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Best regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Erik&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:54:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5688746#M56883</guid>
      <dc:creator>gilsdorf_e</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-23T06:54:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issues with FormattedText</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5689458#M56895</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Solved it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I forgot to enter edit mode for the titleblock sketch&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tBlock.Definition.Edit(out sketch);&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That did the trick.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Best regards&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Erik&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5689458#M56895</guid>
      <dc:creator>gilsdorf_e</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-23T14:56:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issues with FormattedText</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5691985#M56920</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi Erik,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I had the same problem some time ago, I tried to change the formatted text with the "Replace" function and something went wrong.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Then I've tried the following solution and it started working properly&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/changing-text-in-description-column-of-a-holetable/m-p/4600145#M47066"&gt;http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/changing-text-in-description-column-of-a-holetable/m-p/4600145#M47066&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bregs&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Rossano Praderi&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:32:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/issues-with-formattedtext/m-p/5691985#M56920</guid>
      <dc:creator>rossano_praderi</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-24T18:32:49Z</dc:date>
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